Grace proverbs

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◆ there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

- Khaled Hosseini99

◆ The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.

- Bree Despain99

◆ Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

- Frederick Buechner99

◆ There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.

- Flannery O'Connor99

◆ Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

- Matthew Henry99

◆ When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

- Patricia Briggs99

◆ I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

- Jerry Bridges99

◆ And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

- Anonymous99

◆ As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

- Anne Lamott99

◆ I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

- Margaret Peterson Haddix99

◆ Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

- Paul Murray99

◆ Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

- Wm. Paul Young99

◆ Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

- Tullian Tchividjian99